Using praw.ini

[pcheng17]

Hey! Have you thought about using a top-level praw.ini to pass in your client id, client secret, and user_agent? See here for its documentation.

Having a section in the praw.ini file that contains the following

[ScraperBot]
client_id = ABCDE
client_secret = 12345
user_agent = ScraperBot

would allow initialization of the Reddit object to simply be reddit = praw.Reddit('ScraperBot'). Plus, it would remove the current need for dotenv.

[iam-abbas]

That sounds really convenient! Could you make a PR?

[pcheng17]

Will do! Where in the directory structure do you expect you or other users to run the code? I want to make sure I'm putting the praw.ini file in the right spot since it needs to be in the same directory as where you're running the code.

Edit: Nevermind. Looking at how you're reading your config.ini file, it seems like you're running your ticker_counts.py file from your src directory!

[iam-abbas]

Added in #16